Killing Game Center - probably bad, but only if they were going to actually fix it (make it visually fit the OS, make social gaming on it actually work, make

Sharing info between apps - has been needed since iOS2. And just think, third party apps could use such an interface to completely lock out Apple Maps in favour of the user's choice. Not enough though.

It's incredibly useful for when I just need to make a short list, or I want to type up something (with a LITTLE formatting at least -- something Notes doesn't provide). Especially since it opens up so much faster than Pages, even with an SSD -- important when you're trying to make a note of something really quickly, like if you're on the phone or something.

I suppose notes could probably fulfill that functionality for me, but I prefer to be able to save documents wherever I want, instead of being strongarmed by Apple into throwing them all into an indiscriminant pile. Also, notes always used to be so ugly -- the yellow notepad paper was hard to work with.

Seriously .... why doesnt apple just add text formating to Notes and kill the yellow background instead of adding yet an other app that does almost the same ??

I know I sound like a curmudgeon, but really, they JUST put out 7.1, which still has issues and doesn't really work like I know a lot of people wish it would. Can't they just take a year "off" and improve upon all the missteps of 7 and wait until putting out an entirely new major version (which, in true Apple fashion, will be rife with an entirely new set of bugs and annoyances)?

Same for OS X. Every new release breaks something that worked perfectly in the version before it, and it takes the entire life cycle to fix only to be broken again in the next major release. (Hint hint-still can't swipe to navigate Finder in Mavericks).

It would be nice for the USER to get rid of any app they want to.... nice to see stupid game center going away, that was useless. I would love to get rid of other buklshit apps like Passbook (which does NOTHING!), Stocks, newsstand and Apple Maps

I would actually like to see them use the Game Center app more, namely allow me to not show any games as app icons, and instead use Game Center to list and launch them in the same way Newsstand does now.

If they were to take away the Game Center standalone app and instill a small part of it on every game would that not take up a lot more space then the game center app alone? Thus taking away more space for the consumer?

I would actually like to see them use the Game Center app more, namely allow me to not show any games as app icons, and instead use Game Center to list and launch them in the same way Newsstand does now.

I support this. Though the addition of unlimited folders has weakened the utility of this solution slightly.

It's incredibly useful for when I just need to make a short list, or I want to type up something (with a LITTLE formatting at least -- something Notes doesn't provide). Especially since it opens up so much faster than Pages, even with an SSD -- important when you're trying to make a note of something really quickly, like if you're on the phone or something.

Sounds like solid, reasonable moves. I'm a fan of 90% of what iOS 7 did - especially with 7.1 - but Notification Center was just poorly done. It essentially becomes a second inbox to triage and clear. I still have notifications that are extremely irrelevant. Oh great, Dark Sky told me it was going to drizzle 2 days ago.

Hopefully Today view becomes a bit more Google Nowish, and "All" view learns to clean up after itself or be more relevant.

Apple may be simplifying existing apps like Notification Center, doing away with the "All" and "Missed" views and combing them into one “Notifications” view. The new Notification Center will contain "Today" and "Notifications" views, making it easier for users to keep track of items that are immediately important. Voice Memos also will see a redesign with controls that distinguish between recording and playback functions.

So they are going to make iOS 7 like iOS6 and do away with the complications that iOS 7 brought? Good.